Well i've been looking around and noticed that the MMOFPS genre is coming into style and is becoming increasingly popular but what i've also noticed is their all pay to play or you have to buy them from retail vendors.

I believe the first MMOFPS to be free with option to pay(micro payments)will be a huge success and will cause more people to come out with MMOFPS' that are free i think this is what is needed to start of the industry i mean huxley is a start but more manpower is needed in making the MMOFPS genre take of from the ground.

This is my opinion what's yours?

Right now MMOFPS stands to be a breakthrough because of the difference in gameplay from your standard MMORPG. But until we see dedicated server and bandwidth available at a reasonable cost...it will never gain the popularity of the 3rd person RPG.

As far as micropayments go...it all comes down to monthly cost. Whether it is 3 dollars a week, or 15 dollars a month, or bi/annual yearly payments, if it costs money people are going to expect alot. Unfortunatly expectations normally exceed what your money is actually paying for. Planetside is my prime example. It is a good game with decent graphics and a fairly large playing area, but it hasnt been updated in forever and company support for the product is barely even registering. Withought some new graphics updates and gameplay this game is destined for has beens with everquest and ultima online.

Also alot of games fail because it is hard to get people to pay monthly payments on anything. We live in an age of torrents making all software ripe for pirating. Music is on MP3s that are shared all over the net, and software companies are thinking of raising the price of games to over 100 dollars a title to make up the revenue lost to software piracy (of course this just makes the pirates even more justified). Every day I get the "where do I get free keys to *your favorite game here*" We need to realize that to get what we want, we are going to have to invest a little of our hard earned cash to get it. Companies don't hear opinions...they hear dollar signs.

Huntyre wrote:
Companies don't hear opinions...they hear dollar signs.

Amen to that

i know its just sad that this happens most companies are looking for a profit however if i can make a mmofps i will definetly make it fully free until the game gets off then i might have optional payment for items but not paying dosent affect your gameplay at all

ThievingSix wrote:
i know its just sad that this happens most companies are looking for a profit however if i can make a mmofps i will definetly make it fully free until the game gets off then i might have optional payment for items but not paying dosent affect your gameplay at all

You gotta understand though.

It takes money to keeps the servers running, Not to mention all the employees they gotta pay.
So with just having people buying items with no effect on the buyers gameplay doesn't generate that much money as you think it would.

But if you think as the game becomes popular you add more servers and the more people to play on the servers the more people to buy the premium items!